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U.s. launched a couple of them off to show their capabilities and it is quite dramatic. the ability to penetrate through rock. they are a very strong, offensive capability. so, the u.s. military and conjunction with its allies in the area is really always ready. locked and loaded for any kind of a north korean threat, hallie. >> courtney live for us at the pentagon. thank you very much. with me, chad sweep and chief of staff from the department of ohomeland security under george w. bush and my panel for the next hour, senior white house correspondent for bloomberg news margaret and nick john...

And that leaves only then the offensive capability or the deterrent. i would just suggest to you that shannon, there is a moment in the life of nearly every problem like this when it is big enough for reasonable people to see and still small enough to be addressed without catastrophe. and bill clinton missed that moment when he made a deal with the koreans that didn't last very long. he paid the ran some. didn't secure the hostage. barack obama did essentially the same thing. gave them a quarter million tons of food. clinton gave them a half million tons of fuel a year. in both cases the north...

And that's something you hear in this building because there's an ability to retaliate. a lot of the talk about cyber is on the deterrent side. frankly, this sort of shrugging on the shoulders of what do you do if someone attacks back. a lot of the infrastructure, a federal system, it isn't as secure as a lot of folks here would like it to be. >> evan, you were in the cia. what do you do? >> i think it's about mostly sanctions. what hans said about cyber attacks is true. i think we need a robust offensive capability. we do. but our defenses are fairly behind. but i will say that we absolutely ...

Broken, has come into focus by looking hard enough at what is out there in open sources. so one last point, as the fbi and congressional investigations and journalists continue to authenticate and flesh out just how much russia did, just exactly what russia did to us last year and as we continue to get more information about contacts between trump campaign people and the russias during the time that the attack was under way despite the fact that the trump campaign denied it all these months. as the pieces are falling into place, it's worth looking at the way the russians talk about this themse...

And journalists continue to authenticate and flesh out just how much russia did, just exactly what russia did to us last year and as we continue to get more information about contacts between trump campaign people and the russias during the time that the attack was under way despite the fact that the trump campaign denied it all these months. as the pieces are falling into place, it's worth looking at the way the russians talk about this themselves, because they are proud of their capability in this regard. they did have a putin senior adviser last february threaten in public that the united s...